About July 1
July 1, 2024 is the 183rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 69 –Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
- 1782 –American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1873 –Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 1874 –The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- 1881 –General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- 1885 –The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1915 –Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of China is founded.
- 1931 –United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1962 –Independence of Burundi.
- 1963 –ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
- 1967 –Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
- 1978 –The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- 1983 –A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
- 2008 –Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
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